Help with buying a lens

[lancslass]

hi,i have just got for Christmas a £300 gift voucher from Jessops,and am thinking of getting a new lens for my Canon 450D,i already have a 50mm,105 macro,18-270 mm and a 18-55mm lens that came with the camera,what would be the next lens to buy?i was thinking of a wide angle lens,but not sure,or should a get a flashgun and some grad filters?thank you karen

[silversnapper1]

Oooh, what a conundrum Karen.

I suppose that the answer to that one partly lies in what you can imagine yourself shooting next.

I have the Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6 and absolutely love it for landscape work. It can give you some magical skies but you need to find foreground interest to fill the frame.

I have also just invested in some nd, nd grads and Lee Big Stopper. haven't had much opportunity to use them much because as soon as they arrived, so did the snow. Again, extremely useful for landscape work. Make sure that you get adapters for each of your lenses and you can use them whatever lens that you have on the camera.

If you intend to shoot portraits, then the flashgun and a flash trigger so that you can use it off camera is a good idea. If your budget stretches far enough, you could also buy some flash modifiers like the interfit strobies stuff to give you different effects.

Hope that these suggestions have given you some food for thought.

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by lancslass

hi,i have just got for Christmas a £300 gift voucher from Jessops,and am thinking of getting a new lens for my Canon 450D,i already have a 50mm,105 macro,18-270 mm and a 18-55mm lens that came with the camera,what would be the next lens to buy?i was thinking of a wide angle lens,but not sure,or should a get a flashgun and some grad filters?thank you karen

Need to tell us what you like taking photos of and how much you have to spend.